A 4-year-old boy who was reported missing from the Brighton Heights area of Pittsburgh has been found safe.

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Lamar Snead was inside his grandmother's house on California Avenue all the time, just a couple of doors away from his own home.

"I was looking for yaya," the boy said, using his nickname for his grandmother.

The woman was getting panicked after hours of not knowing where the boy was, so she went upstairs to lie down and found him in bed.

"When I walked into my room, he sat up," the grandmother said. "I looked at him and I says, 'Lamar, what are you doing?,' and he said, 'I'm waiting for you.' "

Relieved mother Latreace Snead hugged her boy, surrounded by Pittsburgh police officers who had responded to a 911 broadcast about the boy's disappearance.

Channel 4 Action News' Marcie Cipriani reported that the grandmother had walked outside the boy's home and went to her house for a cup of coffee in the morning. When she went back to his house, where he had been sleeping, the front door was open and there was no sign of him.

The family believes it must have been during that time when the boy went to look for her and, not seeing her, just went inside.

"Yaya, I wasn't under the covers, I was over. I was just a little bit cold," Lamar told her.